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Applications of XPS in Biology and Biointerface Analysis

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XPS has been used extensively to characterize the surface chemistry of materials used in bioengineering and is increasingly finding a role in biology. Its ability to characterize both the elemental and chemical structures of the surface makes it particularly useful, as it can be used to identify and image the chemical functional groups present on the surface of virtually any material. This review is intended both to profile traditional applications of XPS in bioengineering and biology as well as to discuss advances in XPS instrumentation aimed at enabling the characterization of biological and organic materials.

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  1. Biointerface Engineering Group, IRIS, Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, VIC, 3122, Australia

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McArthur, S.L., Mishra, G., Easton, C.D. (2014). Applications of XPS in Biology and Biointerface Analysis. In: Smentkowski, V. (eds) Surface Analysis and Techniques in Biology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01360-2_2

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